Admit it — never in your entire life did you ever subscribe to a magazine because someone wrote a review of it and called it boring. Well, I just did. The magazine is Bicycle Times. Its focus is everyday riding, commuting, family riding, and touring. Here’s what Andrew Hartsock had to say about it:
A cursory glance showed it had gear reviews, odes to commuting, reader submissions, how-to articles and the like. In other words, it seemed perfect for a bike-commute geek like me.
About 20 minutes into what was to be a leisurely one-hour ride on the trainer in the basement, I had mowed through more than half of the magazine, and my enthusiasm had cooled considerably.
There wasn’t anything terribly wrong with the magazine. I gleaned a tidbit here, a tip there, learned a little about rain gear.
But it dawned on me that reading about bike commuting is even more dull than … bike commuting itself.
And I’m a big fan of bike commuting.
Hmmmmm…
Well, OK. Now I’m curious.
I also want to be supportive. And I’m thinking there ought to be a place for a bicycling magazine that resists the sport-cycling culture. Does it resist that culture? We’ll see.
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Here is another one for your pleasure.
We received free copies at the bike summit. That was the first I had heard of it.
Posted 07 Apr 2009 at 1:33 pm ¶Darn it!
Here it is…
http://www.momentumplanet.com/
Posted 07 Apr 2009 at 1:34 pm ¶Robert… Cool. Giving that one a try, too.
Posted 07 Apr 2009 at 5:22 pm ¶interesting that he think bike commuting is boring…
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 12:31 pm ¶Alex… Yes. I found that a bit odd, too.
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 12:39 pm ¶He was riding a *stationary bike* in his *basement* ? Well, no wonder he was bored by the magazine if what he was doing was more interesting than, you know, actually riding somewhere.
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 5:43 pm ¶PS Does this comments section allow html tags ? Some italics are called for here !
Cordelia… Good question re: html tags. Let me check my preferences. I’ll get back to you.
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 6:00 pm ¶